Do you mean on the smooth rather than inner knurl? Because otherwise that's a super narrow grip. I think keeping any finger on the rings is fine, just figure out what's comfortable for you. I'm currently doing pinky on the ring.

Do you mean on the smooth rather than inner knurl? Because otherwise that's a super narrow grip. I think keeping any finger on the rings is fine, just figure out what's comfortable for you. I'm currently doing pinky on the ring.

Yeah, so my thumbs are ~3 inches away from it when my grip is closed. Is it? I'll try a wider grip then maybe.

Yeah, so my thumbs are ~3 inches away from it when my grip is closed. Is it? I'll try a wider grip then maybe.

It's pretty narrow (and again, if you really meant inner knurl, crazy narrow). My close grip bench is index at the very start of the knurl. For normal bench, I was doing middle finger on the rings, but brought it in because I was getting a bit of pain along the interface of my delt/pec on the outer chest.

@Bush the second ring on that bar you show is the normal "ring" we are talking about.Edited by VLSI - 10/26/13 at 7:01pm